General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same.

The humble Address of the City of WILLIAMSBURG.

MY LORD: We his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council, of the City of Williamsburg, in Common Hall assembled, beg leave to embrace the earliest opportunity of congratulating your Lordship on the conclusion of a dangerous and fatiguing service in which you have lately been engaged, and on your return to this City.

It is with pleasure we hear your Lordship has been able to defeat the designs of a cruel and insidious enemy, and at the same time that your Lordship has escaped those dangers to which your person must have been frequently exposed.

Permit us also, upon this occasion, to express our congratulations on the addition to your family by the birth of a daughter; and to assure you that we wish to your Lordship every degree of felicity, and that we shall contribute towards its attainment, as far as lies in our power, during your residence among us.

To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer:

GENTLEMEN: I am obliged to you for this Address. The fatigue and danger of the service which I undertook, out of commiseration for the deplorable state which, in particular, the back inhabitants were in, and to manifest my solicitude for the safety of the country in general, which his Majesty has committed to my care, has been amply rewarded by the satisfaction I feel in having been able to put an effectual stop to a bloody war.

I thank you for the notice you are pleased to take of the event which has happened in my family; and, I doubt not that, as I have hitherto experienced the marks of your civility, you will continue in the same friendly disposition toward me.

To his Excellency the Earl of DUNMORE, Governour of VIRGINIA.

May it please your Excellency:

We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the President and Professors of William and Mary College, moved by an impulse of unfeigned joy, cannot help congratulating your Excellency on such a series of agreeable events, as the success of your enterprise against the Indians, the addition to your family by the birth of a daughter, and your safe as well as glorious return to the capital of this Dominion.

May the great fatigues and dangers which you so readily and cheerfully undergo in the service of your Government, be ever crowned with victory! May you ever find the publick benefits thence arising attended with domestick blessings! And, may you always feel the enlivening pleasure of reading in the countenances around you, wherever you turn your eyes, such expressions of affection as can be derived only from applauding and grateful hearts!

To which his Excellency was pleased to return the following Answer:

GENTLEMEN: I cannot but receive every instance of the attention of a learned and respectable body, such as yours, with a great degree of satisfaction; but the affectionate and very obliging terms in which you are pleased to express your good wishes towards me, on this occasion, demand my cordial thanks, and will ever be impressed on my mind.

To the Right Honourable JOHN, Earl of DUNMORE, his Majesty's Lieutenant and Governour-General of the Colony and Dominion of VIRGINIA, and Vice Admiral of the same.

My LORD: We his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, in Common Hall assembled, impressed with a deep and grateful sense of the important services rendered to this Colony by your Excellency's seasonable and vigorous exertion in the late expedition against a deceitful and treacherous enemy, conducted under your auspices to so fortunate an issue, beg leave, by this testimony of our general respect, to congratulate your Excellency on the happy event, and on your safe arrival at the capital.

While we applaud your Lordship's moderation in giving peace to a merciless foe, we cannot but exult in the happiness of our fellow-subjects on the Frontiers, who, by your unremitted zeal and spirited conduct, have acquired the blessings of ease, security, and domestick enjoyment.

As we sincerely participate in every circumstance of your publick glory, neither can we be insensible of your private happiness in the birth of a daughter, and the recovery of Lady Dunmore, on which joyful occasion we beg leave also to add our most cordial congratulations; and we devoutly wish that, to the pleasing remembrance of having faithfully discharged your important trust of Government, you may have superadded the approbation of your Royal Master, the grateful returns of an happy people, and the honour of these distinctions reflected on a numerous and flourishing family.

His Lordship's Answer.

The Address of the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, expressive of their duty and loyalty to the King, cannot but be extremely acceptable to me.

His Majesty, in his tender solicitude for the safety of his subjects, so lately exposed to the calamities of an Indian war, having signified his full approbation of the measures which I at first adopted for their relief, and as the issue of that event, the only circumstance of it of which he could not yet be informed, will entirely remove the paternal anxiety which he suffered on the occasion, I already enjoy, and have good reason to expect the continuance of one part of that high recompense which the gentlemen of the Borough of Norfolk have so kindly wished me, and the applause which they are pleased to bestow upon me greatly contributes towards another part, which is my ardent ambition to merit.

The notice which they take of my private concerns is obliging, as their approbation of my publick conduct is honourable to me, and both demand my most cordial thanks.

Williamsburg, Va., February 4, 1775.

The following is said to be a Message from Captain Logan, an Indian Warriour, to Governour Dunmore, after the battle in which Colonel Charles Lewis was slain, delivered at the Treaty:

"I appeal to any white man to say that he ever entered Logan's cabin but I gave him meat; if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and I gave him not meat: if ever he came cold or naked and I gave him not clothing. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained in his tent, an advocate for peace: nay such I was my love for the whites, that those of my own country pointed at me as they passed by, and said, "Logan is the friend of white men. I had even thought to live with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, who last year cut off, in cold blood, all the relations of Logan, not sparing women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any human creature. This called upon me for revenge; I have sought it—I have killed many, and fully glutted my revenge. I am glad that there is a prospect of peace, on account of the Nation; but I beg you will not entertain a thought that any thing I have said proceeds from fear! Logan disdains the thought! He will not turn on his heel to save his life! Who is there to mourn for Logan? No one"*

* New-York, February 16, 1775.—Extract of a letter from Virginia: "I make no doubt but the following specimen of Indian eloquence and mistaken valour will please you; but you must make allowances for the unskilfulness of the Interpreter:

The Speech, of LOGAN, a SHAWANESE Chief, to Lord DUNMORE.

"I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry and I gave him not meat; if ever he came cold or naked and I gave him not clothing. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained in his tent, an advocate for peace; nay, such was my love for the whites, that those of my own country pointed at mo as they passed by, and said, "Logan is the friend of white men," I had even thought to live with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last Spring, in cool blood and unprovoked, cut off all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any human creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it—I have killed many—I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbour the thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? Not one."